Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)

To bring home support forward, in terms of the outturn for this year versus next year, we are looking at a 7.4% increase in the budget itself, or €82 million. The home support hours involve a Supplementary Estimate of €22 million. I take the Deputy's point. We are always trying to provide more hours. What was budgeted for was 24 million hours. That will end up at around 25 million, and then we will put another 1.7 million hours on top of that to be 26.7 million hours. When I speak about the 1.7 million hours, it is on the outturn for this year, not in the budget for last year. That is a really important point for people to be aware of.